The AEI suggests that this might be behind some of the socialistic tendencies in the general populace - that they really do think that there is money just sitting there to be raided. Interesting stuff.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
-Clifford Stoll

This is why it's easy to convince people of a $15 minimum wage or that if the McDonald's CEO took a pay cut to his $15.4 million salary it would go a long way to increasing the wages of the company's 1.9 million employees. Of course, 3% of billions of dollars may still be billions of dollars, but the local franchisee working 80 hours a week with one restaurant probably isn't a fat cat.

Now I know there's a reason you shouldn't blame others when you do something wrong, and that reason is: you might get caught and have to apologize to a bunch of dumb peasants.